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Unpacking my boxes from summer storage, I began to suspect that I was suffering from a severe case of mauvaise foi. Perhaps it was a symptom of the anxiety surrounding my recent 20th birthday or my more deep-seated tendency toward hypochondria, brought on by watching too many episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Yet, as I unearthed heart-shaped perfume bottles, caked tubes of mascara, and back issues of Vogue, I felt as though I had violated some ill-defined feminist responsibility. A twinge of guilt, beyond the purely financial, accompanied...
...younger segment, with zero to five years of experience - for them the loyalty factor doesn't work anymore," he says. "They follow the big bucks. I think if they had a choice, a larger percentage [of Satyam employees] would like to bail out." E. Balaji, CEO of Ma Foi Management Consultants, says the uncertainty of the job market may be a deterrent. "People who joined the workforce from roughly 2004 onwards assumed everything would only go up," he says. "They saw real estate, stocks, salaries going up, and forgot that there's something called a business cycle. These youngsters...
Chevron also had to contend with irate Foi and Fasu tribesmen who, armed with spears, axes and bows and arrows, occupied the project's airstrip and attacked some company officials. The tribespeople demanded a more favorable split of the oil royalties between them and the provincial government and fulminated over damage to their hunting and fishing grounds. The take was subsequently improved from a 20%-80% division to 30%-70%; after Chevron built medical facilities for the villagers and buried the pipeline, peace was restored...
When a reporter from the school paper was denied access to the evaluations last year, he filed a complaint with the FOI and gained the right to see the evaluations...
...faculty failed to prove at that time that the public access would have detrimental effects on the university. It was decided that access was a legitimate public interest of public employees of a public university," said Victor Perpetua '73, a staff attorney at the FOI who is handling the battle...